A 13-minute doc where soccer jerseys become sacred armor against cultural erasure. Vamos.
The Perechú family is afraid that the ancestral costume of their ancestors will disappear, but they see soccer as an opportunity to keep their culture and legacy alive.
Direction
Chapetón packs decades of history into 13 tight minutes.
Production
The costumes — that's ancestral regalia, not cosplay.
Director
Rodrigo García Chapetón
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Xejuyup plays in Guatemala's second division, but for the Kaqchikel Maya community, the club operates as living resistance against centuries of erasure.
The 'ancestral costume' referenced isn't metaphor — players don actual ceremonial huipil and traje, transforming the pitch into sacred ground.
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